alexa-voice-service

I have been checking out the Alexa Skills kit the past few days. I have also been poring through the documentations for both the Skills kit and the Voice Service. I am just having a little hiccup trying to understand the flow. I have implemented one of amazon's sample skills (favourite colour sample) in the developer console and also wrote a sample lambda function to handle the type of response that will be delivered. Its working on the test simulator and what left is basically getting lambda running through my ios app. However I have the impression that I don't have to use the voice service.

In the following example: If the user says toffee, shouldn't that be translated to candy? I ask because the value handed to my intent is 'toffee'. So not sure what I have incorrect. types":[ { "name":"SHOPPING_LIST", "values":[ { "id":null, "name":{ "value":"candy", "synonyms":[ "toffee" ] } }, { "name":"GetPrice", "samples":[ "Get me the price of {item}", "tell me the price of {item}", ], "slots":[ { "name":"item", "type":"SHOPPING_LIST" } ] } We need to handle the entity resolution in your backend code. More can be referred here: https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/5de2b24d-d932

I am trying to integrate amazon skill kit in my website without an amazon echo unit. I want to implement voice commands on my website using the laptop/PC microphone instead of an echo unit. I have used this tutorial but I didn't find anything about how to implement it on my side. I also tried these samples available on github. But I think these also require an Amazon echo device: https://github.com/amzn/alexa-skills-kit-js I am using Windows with the development environment given below My development environment I am able to configure web server for Alexa skills and it is working Asp.Net C#

I'd like Alexa to be able to accept a variable-length list of English letters to my custom skill. It will allow users to search based on a string. There's two steps to this: Getting good representation for individual letters that Alexa can understand Enumerating sample utterances with variable number of letters For the first, one way would be to define a custom slot that has as its enumerated values of the English alphabet: SLOT_LETTER ay bee see dee ee eff gee ... etc but that feels hacky. Does Amazon support any way to do this or is there a cleverer way? I'd really rather not use NATO

I'm trying to create a Amazon Alexa Skills Kit to do some kind of automation which would be required to take speech input comprised of strings and numbers ( a-test12fish ). When I've used custom slots in Alexa Skills Kit, it is not letting me key in strings with numbers. When I try to key in ask alexa, dangerZone find a-test12fish , I'm getting the following error: Error: Invalid text input. Text should begin with alphabets and should only contain alphabets, whitespaces, periods or apostrophes How can I overcome this error? Here's a solution. You probably don't want to complete this in the